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by ajuc 3y ago
This is why comments in the code aren't that useful, and why commit messages are essential.
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by ajuc 3y ago
My bouncing back is entirely explained by caloric intake ;) I've had "cheat months". I simplified it, I was bouncing up and down several times, I started at 130 kg, went to 100 kg pretty quickly, dipped to 90 kg twice (both t
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> Studies show that exercise doesn't help you lose any appreciable amount of weight. It's good for you and you should do it, but it doesn't help with weight loss. Depends on your definition of appreciable. I started measur
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Yup, there's like 10 different factors that change on daily basis.
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I'm from Poland, I've worked for UK company for several years and lived there from time to time. I disagree with the article main thesis. UK will still be more wealthy in 30 years, simply because wealth and GDP is not the same. Co
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by ajuc 3y ago
There was a competition between F-16 and Grippen :)
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That's what people were complaining about in Poland in 00s when we bought F-16 in addition to our MiG-29. That the airplanes will be hard to maintain, aren't as rugged, can't handle street landing and improvised conditions. T
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by ajuc 3y ago
before picking up apple table = {apple0, apple1, apple2, apple3}; //length == 4 hand = {}; //length == 0 after table = {apple0, apple1, apple2}; length == 3 hand = {apple3}; //length == 1
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by ajuc 3y ago
By now we've been doing for (int i=0; i<13; i++) { whatever(array[i]); } and def printHello(): print("hello world"[0:5]) for decades. No point vastly messing up consistency for minimal
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If we tried to clean up the radioactive materials that coal powerplants pump into air - the cost would be even more ridiculous. But somehow we don't care.
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I don't know about arrays, but numbering floors starting from 1 is absurd. In most of Europe ground floor is 0, underground floors are negative, floors above the ground are positive numbers. Integers were invented for a reason, use the
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by ajuc 3y ago
Less people died in Fukushima accident than dies yearly because of coal powerplants pumping radioactive materials into atmosphere. If you calculate radioactive materials released per energy produced - nuclear is below coal, even including a
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by ajuc 3y ago
Yugoslavia was a communist country, same as Poland where I'm from, if a little richer. Technically you could afford a home and a car in communist Poland easily, too. Prices and salaries were set by the state. The problem was that waiti
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by ajuc 3y ago
In a very small, privileged portion of the world that got rich by abusing the rest.
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If free market can't get this done, maybe we should just pay people from our taxes to do such research?
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by ajuc 3y ago
> According to the National Safety Council (NSC), your chances of dying in a car crash are about one in 103 for any given year. It does seem impossibly high now that I did math.
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> What if there's a 99% chance they're an android? Still seems like you should avoid the torture-murder, for the 1% chance they're human. 99.9999999% chance? At this point I think it becomes less pressing, but it's st
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You can easily kill people with software. It has happened.
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If you saved the state somewhere - nope.
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by ajuc 3y ago
2 pure functions that calculate n digits of pi using different algorithms. I guess you could exploit memory layout, different number of variables or timing attacks to distinguish them, but that's cheating IMHO. By that same method you
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by ajuc 3y ago
Polish uses "w" instead of "v" and it's pronounced as "v" yet we are taught to write it rounded in cursive (capital letters are still edgy).
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by ajuc 3y ago
How is Elon allowed to transport people to space?
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by ajuc 3y ago
> Much like an AI maybe tasked to sniff for security loopholes, there will be other AI's which will be tasked to defend. Eventually costs, resources also boil down into what is possible. It's inherently easier to break stuff th
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by ajuc 3y ago
Peasants in Russia (and in Poland-Lithuania before it got conquered) were effectively slaves. They had to do free work, couldn't leave without permission of the landlord. Landlords were also acting as judges. Landlords had monopoly on
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by ajuc 3y ago
I'm still going to after-work parties from time to time, I just drink nonalcoholic stuff. The biggest difference in friend-making was when I graduated and started to work, not when I stopped drinking 5 years later. Also I was never ver
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by ajuc 3y ago
For what it's worth I was a teetotaler for religious reasons till 18, they I drank through my 20s (usually 1-2 beers in pub with friends, on weddings etc I drank wódka pretty heavily cause I'm in Poland, but that was maybe twice a
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by ajuc 3y ago
Yeah, should have said the conscious, abstract thinking part. We also have coprocessors for intuitive physics, face detection, inverse kinematics for muscle movement, etc. And even some virtualization so we can simulate other people minds.
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What human brain is good at: chains of causation with clearly defined relationships. I.e. stories. What human brain is bad at: fuzzy mess of thousands or billions of interrelated events that all influence each other slightly. This is the re
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by ajuc 3y ago
It was clear to everybody in Eastern Europe. See: > Poland's Lech Kaczyński in August 2008 traveled to Tbilisi together with the presidents of Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to show solidarity with Georgia in the face of Rus

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